You will always have one screw left over that you do not remember where it came from - this is a gift from the other dimension. Neumann would be proud of you.
This is the definition of an Audio Engineer. To understand Audio in air pressure, Electrons, and bit packet information, vibration, Raises the bar for the rest of us. Thanks.
Great video and the Elysia and the latest one of the Studio table. Many thanks for your excited You Tube channel. ❤👍 Please do more tech build and also don't forget maintenance videos. Always stuff that needs to be fixed, service especially if you own a lot of vintage analog equipment like I do myself in my studio facility. Takes a bit of time to fix it if you have the knowledge to do so, but so fun and exciting when your projects and old equipment actually gets done and works again after service. 👍😊
PS! I hope you get your Alpha Compressor soon from Elysia. Tips: If you contact them and ask them if you can review it on your channel you might get one for free or extremely discounted price. 👍
Haha, won't be getting it for free, I don't even want one for free.. Right now, I do not have the budget, even if I would get whatever discount. Let's ride out the crisis first...
I dont really understand what is happening but i find it entertaining Edit: Im really not that into making music, i just love music as a whole. But these videos really be fun to watch doe
You can enjoy your music a lot more when you know something about how it was made. That's why music in physical formats came with things called "Liner Notes." So it sounds like you're on the right track, no pun intended.
Great video Wytse, really interesting seeing you work on the Neumann. I love the videos of you doing some electrical engineering - I find it very inspiring as it doesn’t feel unachievable to do the same myself (I have a vintage Soundtracs modular console which I would love to maintain properly and improve upon - these analogue consoles really are something special!)
cool upgrades! finer control is great, but how's the latency and is there zipper noise? Also, does the signal meter still work? Other than that, looking forward to seeing the new monitor system when you're free to talk about it!
I was an assistant at Westlake Studios in the mid-'90s & worked w/many top Mix Engineers & Artists. I don't want to name drop so just go to westlakestudios.com. All of that was nothing compared to the knowledge I obtained when working w/guys who'd been working since the dawn of Rock'n'Roll. If they didn't have the gear, they made it(& not from a kit). You have great skills as an Engineer and a Tech. Building an electrically-balanced & isolated studio w/a modular desk is not for the faint of heart. You should reverse-engineer that Neumann Console -you probably have some schematics. You see where I'm going. Keep up the great work!
Awesome video, very enjoyable ti watch. btw: Do you have recommendation for a cheap but usable solder station? Its gonna be used for entry level dyi audio builds. Flux and solder brands as well. (: Cheers
Now that was cool. And yes it is frightening when you start taking apart equipment that runs your business. “I’m more genius than I thought I was genius!” Epic.
On my controller I have a "side" button that does L minus R (removing the mono information). It is quite handy to analyze content, I use it almost as much as the mono option.
Question, on my Toft ATB console if I press my ALT monitor button to change from the focals to the NS10s my Monitor lets a loud bang like a shotgun Blast. How would I fix this. Also love your videos and you really do in inspire me to be a better Mixer and Mastering engineer. :-)
White Sea Studio, I would love to see you rip it up on a console, like really do some damage adding colour, saturation, compressor. I would like to see you in action on a mix and/or master with all the gear that you have. For us who work in the box it's even nice just to see analog gear on video!
how much resolution does the fader have? I often hear people complain about being able to hear the steps on digital faders that only have 128 or 256 steps
It kind of doesn't matter for monitoring volume, TV having 10 steps of volume didn't bother people much, this is way more steps so even less of an issue. You adapt to the volume, it's not like you can't mix at speakers set 0.5dB louder than what you think is ideal
You are talking about quality but the thing i miss in the story is about the quality of the D/A converter(s). Speakers ok, but what about the most important thing.. the A/D converter. ? My search has come to an en by the way. The ultimate converters are from Metrum Accoustics, a dutch compant by the way. I dont think you can hear that differance between that converter and a analog tape (must be in that way, what else) It will even out perform a tape machine in 24 bit at 48khz.
White Sea Studio Those connectors are pretty decent. They once used to be on every printer, when printers used a parallel interface. The centronics interface was the common standard before the db25 connector become more common. Does the monitor controller use a microcontroller to do it’s controlling magic? My dad programs Atmel AVR micro’s for hobby.
Clever use of the biamp tesira GPIO. Im surprised that the sample rate of the tesira is high enough for you as it is fixed at 48khz, i remember you saying in a previous video that you like to record at 192k
I never like untangling someone else's rats-nest; I'd much rather design and create my own LOL. Nice job though, especially since your kind of under the gun so to speak.
